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Enabling or Disabling Area Links in Your Course

Instructors may modify how a course navigation menu appears.  For example, if an instructor did not plan to use the Discussion Board area, the instructor could choose to disable that link so that it did not appear in the navigation menu for students. 

To enable an area:

  1. screen capture of control panel buttonLog into your course site.

  2. Click the Control Panel.


  3. screen capture of manage course menuUnder Course Options, click Manage Course Menu.






  4. To the right of the area which you want to enable, click the Modify button.

    screen capture of Modify button

  5. Check the box next to Available for Student/Participant Users.

    screen capture of Available for Student/Participant Users page

    Note:  Areas such as Communication or Tools have a list of items which may be enabled individually, too.

  6. Click the Submit button.

To disable an area:

  1. Log into your course site.

  2. Click the Control Panel.

  3. Under Course Options, click Manage Course Menu.

  4. To the right of the area which you want to enable, click the Modify button.

    Note:  Do not click the Remove button as that permanently removes that area from your navigation menu.  Although you can recreate an area, it is much simpler to enable an area after having disabled it.

  5. Uncheck the box next to Available for Student/Participant Users.

    Note:  Areas such as Communication or Tools have a list of items which may be disabled individually, too.

  6. Click the Submit button.

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